University of Cantabria

The Computer Engineering Group pursues the understanding of the effects and potentials that Moore’s Law will offer for the next generation of Chip-Multiprocessor architectures. We seek for innovative solutions for the on-chip memory hierarchy with emphasis in interconnection network, coherence protocol and advanced cache architectures. Chip-Multiprocessors (or CMP) represent a major milestone in computing system evolution, being now present in any computer system, from smart-phones to supercomputers. The power wall and complexity explosion in conventional processors were largely responsible for this shift. Adding more processors per chip seems to be the most reasonable approach to keep translating the continual enhancement in technological integration into performance improvements

Projects

This project will address the synergy of machine learning based computing models in Big-data analytics problem, from the perspective of the subjacent computer architecture. The target is to combine efficiently into a single architecture the dissimilar requirements, minimizing the impact on the complex software stack.